The fetish of incrementalism is symptomatic of an intellegentsia that prefers to fool itself that the democratic party is something other than merely a semblance of opposition constructed by the ruling class.

Ms. Flournoy did not react immediately to Mr. McCain's comment, but much later in the hearing she said that "I would never have used the phrase incrementalism" to describe what she called a "very strong commitment" of American troops that are to increase to 68,000 from